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I CURTAIN PULL. No. 368,812. Patented Aug. 16,1887.

UNITE DON CARLOS HA\VES TINKHAM, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

CURTAIN-PULL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,312, dated August 16, 1887.

Application filed January 22, 1587. Serial N0.225.141. (N model.)

To alZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DON CARLOS Hawns TDIKHAM, a, citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Curtain-Pull,of which the following is a specification.

It is now customary to have a ring fastened to the lower stick of the curtain or shade, which, being loose and having a certain amount of play, prevents the person opcrating it from having perfect control over it or guiding it to right or lef't at pleasure, the result being that the curtain rolls up unevenly and thus becomes soiled and creased.

Prior to my invention various devices had been known and patented as curtain-pulls, all of which embodied the feature of a hold or weight loosely or rigidly pendent from the lower curtainstick. Such curtain-pulls have proved unserviceable and objectionable, for the reasons that such as were loosely pendent afforded no rigid control of the curtain, and

none of the pendent pulls or weights permitted the curtain to be drawn down its full length without scratching or marring the windoW-sill.

My invention has no relation to means for confining the curtain in any particular position,and I make no claim for a clasp or clamp to prevent the curtain from unrolling.

The purpose of my invention is to provide a rigid, efficient, and convenient means for controlling the curtain inits upward and downward movements, and for exerting such control at the side of the lower stick of the curtain and not below it, thereby permitting the curtain to be drawn out the full length of the window without marring the sill or turning the lower stick upon its side. This is accomplished by means of a strip of metal bent in the form of a loop or letter, O, and firmly and rigidly fastened to the lower stick of the curtain or shade in such a way that the loop shall be on the side or bottom of said stick. The metal may be fastened to the front or back side, or to the bottom of said stick, or to any or all of these places. This fastening may be by means of screws or rivets or by means of some adhesive substance. hen the metal is bent in such a way as to clasp the lower stick, a hole is drilled in that portion which covers the lower edge of the stick. Through this a screw-eye may be fastened, thus allowing the customary cord and tassel to be attached. The loop or O on thesidc of the stick may be bent in any desired way or made in any PittiJGllLSO as to he a substantial ornament to the curtain. By passing the finger through the loop a firm grasp is obtained,and the shade is kept completely under the control of the operator.

In the drawings, Figure l is a front View of the curtain-pull. Fig. 2 represents a trans verse section of curtain pull and stick. Fig. 3is a rear view of the pull fastened to the stick.

A is the loop or handle of the pull. Bis the lower stick of the curtain. bis the curtain. E and c are the ends of a screw by which the curtain-pull may be fastened to the stick when bent as shown in the drawings. F is a screw-eye fastened to the cnrtainstick through a hole in thelower part, a, of the pull, when bent as shown in the drawings.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The combination, with the lower stick, B, of acurtain, of the part A, having a double reverse fold, as shown, whereby one of said folds is adapted to embrace the stick, while the other projects beyond the front face of said stick, thereby affording a rigid means of controlling and guiding the movements of the curtain wholly from the front face thereof.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand,in presence oftwo witnesses, this 20th day of January, 1887.

DON CARLOS IIAWES 'lINKllAM.

Witnesses:

O. M. VAN SLYcK, CHAS. O. MUMLFORD. 

